'Heneral Luna' will represent PH in Oscar’s Foreign-Language category

Joan Leary

<img src='' alt='092215-heneralluna.jpg' width='400' height='290' align='left' border='0'>Jerrold Tarog’s “Heneral Luna” will represent the Philippines in the 2016 Oscars under the Foreign Language Film category.<br/><br/>The film, which has been receiving rave reviews from the public, has been chosen by the Film Academy of the Philippines and a committee headed by Mel Chionglo.<br/><br/>Other films such as Brillante Mendoza’s “Taklub” and Carlitos Siguinon-Reyna’s “Hari Ng Tondo” were also examined for the category.<br/><br/>Starring John Arcilla, the movie which opened in cinemas last September 9, has a reported budget of 80 million pesos.<br/><br/><iframe class='instagram-media instagram-media-rendered' id='instagram-embed-0' src='https://instagram.com/p/747Y4lJuKE/embed/captioned/?v=4' allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' height='556' data-instgrm-payload-id='instagram-media-payload-0' scrolling='no' style='border: 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 10px 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);'></iframe><script async='' defer='' src='//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js'></script>

‘Heneral Luna’ is Philippines’ official entry to the 2016 Oscars

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